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A chain of small crises — a Saharan standoff, a Korean coup, a misread missile — drags the world's superpowers toward a nuclear war nobody wants. Ken Follett's standalone geopolitical thriller traces how good people and rational decisions can still spiral into catastrophe.

A meticulous predator stalks the Twin Cities, killing women and keeping grisly trophies, his crimes spanning years without ever drawing notice. Lucas Davenport joins forces with a fierce, terminally ill investigator determined to catch the killer before her own time runs out — a hunt that becomes as personal as it is urgent.

Two rival academic families — one liberal white, one conservative Black — collide at a New England university in a novel loosely inspired by E.M. Forster's Howards End.

Naomi Klein's urgent case for a Green New Deal. Gathering more than a decade of her climate writing alongside new material, On Fire argues that the climate crisis demands not incremental tweaks but a transformative political and economic response equal to the scale of the emergency.

Sebastian Faulks's evocative novel of America in 1960. Mary van der Linden, the English wife of a British diplomat in Washington, falls into a consuming affair with a war-haunted American journalist, against a backdrop of the Kennedy–Nixon election, jazz, and the anxieties of the Cold War.

Bri, sixteen, is the daughter of a legendary rapper who died before he made it. She wants to be the greatest rapper of all time — and writes a song that goes viral for all the wrong reasons.

Sidney Orr, recovering from a serious illness, buys a blue Portuguese notebook in Brooklyn and begins writing a story inside it — a story that begins to take on its own momentum, drawing him into questions about fate, authorship, and the reality of the fictional worlds writers create.

A teenage girl investigating the strange events in her suburban neighbourhood discovers that her mother and her mother's best friend performed dangerous magical rituals as teenagers — and that the consequences are still running.

Philip Perlmann, a celebrated linguist, arrives at a conference in a Ligurian village to deliver a paper — but has nothing to say. As the deadline approaches, his paralysis deepens into a desperate plan that puts everything at risk.

Alex Cross hunts a killer who treats murder as a game. Geoffrey Shafer, a British diplomat in Washington, plays a fantasy role-playing contest called The Four Horsemen, earning points for real killings — and when the hunt turns personal, Cross's own happiness becomes the prize.

A cloud of self-replicating nanobots escapes a remote Nevada research facility and begins evolving with terrifying speed, forcing a stay-at-home software engineer to confront a threat that is simultaneously invisible, intelligent, and multiplying. Michael Crichton's nanotechnology thriller melds evolutionary biology with edge-of-your-seat suspense.

Jorg Ancrath, thirteen years old and already a murderer leading a band of road brothers, pursues a path of calculated brutality toward the throne of the Hundred Kingdoms in a dark post-apocalyptic world where the remnants of modern civilization lie buried beneath a medieval fantasy veneer.

Teppic trains as an assassin in Ankh-Morpork, then inherits the throne of Djelibeybi — a tiny, ancient kingdom bankrupting itself on pyramids. When he builds the biggest one yet, the weight of accumulated tradition folds his entire country out of the world.

The second of Updike's Rabbit novels. A decade after Rabbit, Run, Harry Angstrom is a settled, deadened print worker in 1969 — until his wife leaves and his house fills with a runaway teenager and a Black militant, drawing the turmoil of the American 1960s into his living room.

The thrilling conclusion to Lauren Oliver's Delirium trilogy. In a world where love is a disease to be cured, Lena has crossed fully into the resistance. Told in alternating voices by Lena and her former best friend Hana, Requiem brings the rebellion against the regime to its breaking point.

Mickey Haller has turned to freeing the wrongly convicted, and his investigator is none other than Harry Bosch. Their newest case: a woman serving life for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. As Bosch digs into the evidence and Haller prepares to overturn the conviction, they find powerful forces determined to keep the truth buried.

Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov recognises, as a juror at a murder trial, the woman he seduced and abandoned years before. Overcome by guilt, he follows Katyusha Maslova through the Russian prison and exile system — a journey that becomes Tolstoy's most sustained indictment of the state, the church, and the landed class.

A charismatic small-town minister loses his faith after a tragedy and devotes his life to a dangerous obsession with 'secret electricity.' Decades later, his path keeps crossing that of a recovering addict — toward a finale of pure cosmic dread. Stephen King's Lovecraftian masterwork.

A group of wealthy tech vigilantes calling themselves 'the Five' begins murdering people they deem deserving of death — and announcing each killing online with self-righteous manifestos. Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces to stop a band of killers who believe they are doing the world a favor.

Set in fifteenth-century Florence during the life of Savonarola, Eliot's most researched novel follows Romola, daughter of a blind scholar, whose Greek husband Tito Melema is one of fiction's most precisely observed depictions of moral deterioration by small increments.

A string of bank robberies turns lethal when a meticulous mastermind kills hostages even after his instructions are followed to the letter. Alex Cross chases a criminal who plans every move with terrifying precision — and ends on a revelation that reshapes the series.

Rusty-James wants to be like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy — the legendary, color-blind, near-deaf gang leader who has returned to their town like a ghost from a more vital era.

Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party dress, drove off on the Fourth of July, and was never seen again. Her daughter, only seven at the time, hires Kinsey Millhone to find out what happened. To solve it, Kinsey must reconstruct a vanished summer — and Grafton steps outside Kinsey's narration to show it unfolding.

Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's London boarding school as a wealthy, imaginative girl; when her father dies penniless, she is reduced to a servant's life but maintains her dignity through storytelling and the power of her own inner world.